Thank you, Amos ...

Yes, there was a Captain Frank Risser. He could have been the source of the song, since the vessel Kandahar was launched in April 1900. He would have known of Captain Shupe (written as Shube in the song).

There was also a Frank E. Risser and a Frank M. Risser, all roughly of the same time period.

It really would be great to have a sense of which one of the men sang the song.

~ Heather